Shamong

Shamong is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, incorporated in 1852. Shamong means "place of the big horn" in the Lenape language, and the local Native Americans were expelled to Wisconsin during the 1820s and 1830s. In 2015, the rural town of Shamong had a population of 6,419 peope, with an overwhelming 96.86% of the population being white.